Roasted green tomato salsa

I collected all of my green tomatoes in my garden after a frost advisory was given. These were all from the one volunteer green zebra tomato plant seedling that self seeded from the year before. Instead of waiting for them to ripen and possibly forget about them, I decided to make roasted green salsa.

Roasted Green Tomato Salsa

Around 15 small unripe tomatoes

1 white onion

9 medium size garlic cloves

1 cup of cilantro

1 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons lemon juice

3 jalapenos

Step 1:

Cut the tomatoes in half or in quarters if they are larger. Cut the jalapenos' tops off only and peel the garlic and peel and cut the onion in fourths.

Step 2:

Put all ingredients from step one under the broiler in your oven until they are slightly blackened.

Step 3:

Put the rest of the ingredients (the lemon juice and onion and salt and cilantro) into a blender along with the ingredients you just put under the broiler. Blend on high until texture is smooth.

Step 4: let cool and refrigerate until you want to eat some.

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